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Rural hospitals increasingly are turning to telemedicine to address the unique challenges they face, including recruiting doctors to small and economically depressed areas. Dale Medical Center, a rural hospital in Alabama, is working with Southeast Alabama Medical Center to use telemedicine to give its patients access to neurologists. Dale Medical also aims to eventually use the technology to provide psychiatry and cardiology services.

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Rural hospitals increasingly are turning to telemedicine to address the unique challenges they face, including recruiting doctors to small and economically depressed areas. Dale Medical Center, a rural hospital in Alabama, is working with Southeast Alabama Medical Center to use telemedicine to give its patients access to neurologists. The hospital also aims to eventually use the technology to provide psychiatry and cardiology services.

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The Alabama Department of Public Health will provide $55,000 in grants for a pilot project to buy equipment and extend neurology expertise to Montgomery, Prattville and Andalusia. The project allows specialists to leverage videoconferencing technology to remotely assess patients, confirm medical diagnoses, read brain images and offer recommendations to the hospitals' doctors.

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